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Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.

Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.

Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Fray :: Fray (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head..

Fret :: Fret (n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork..

Fretter :: Fretter (n.) One who, or that which, frets..

Nettle :: Nettle (v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.

Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.

Pheese :: Pheese (n.) Fretful excitement.

Nag :: Nag (v. t. & i.) To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

Feaze :: Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

Irritability :: Irritability (n.) The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

Fret :: Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..

Vex :: Vex (v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.

Petulant :: Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship..

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